Thomas Pierret

Senior Researcher at CNRS-IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence. Tweet in private capacity. RT not endorsement. Header: A l'Est de Damas by Majd al-Dik & Nathalie Bontemps

[Thomas Pierret @ThomasPierret]

@kaczinskpilled @CulturalBaptist Yes, declaring war on the entire world rarely ends well

[Thomas Pierret @ThomasPierret]

@kaczinskpilled @CulturalBaptist Considering the amount of military resources that were arrayed against them, the size and nature of the terrain they were defending (small/flat/barren), and the complete absence of support from foreign states, they were an exceptionally tough opponent.

[Thomas Pierret @ThomasPierret]

@kaczinskpilled @CulturalBaptist "Very fast"??? Raqqa was recaptured more than *three years* into the campaign of the International Coalition...

[Thomas Pierret @ThomasPierret]

@JettGoldsmith Don't shoot the messenger. He's absolutely right re. Mamdani.

[Benjamin Fève @BenjaminFeve]

Just recorded a really interesting conversation for the first episode of PRISM Podcast on Syria’s economic recovery, reconstruction, energy politics, refugee returns, and evolving EU–Syria relations.

🎧 The Future of Syria: Economic Recovery and EU–Syria Relations
Listen: https://t.co/Bw3DDzBBW8

We discussed everything from electricity shortages and banking constraints to reconstruction risks, Gulf investment, the northeast’s political economy, refugee returns, and the challenge of turning political normalization into actual economic recovery people can feel in their daily lives.

A big thank you to Umutcan Yüksel of the European University Institute (EUI) for the invitation and discussion.

We also touched on some themes I’ve been working on recently regarding the gap between macro-level stabilization and the lived economic reality of ordinary Syrians, the risks of uneven recovery, and why implementation (not announcements) will ultimately determine whether Syria’s recovery is real.

[Nouvelles d'Orient @alaingresh]

Islam en France. La politique du soupçon permanent
@OrientXXI
https://t.co/2tv1hVSwS9

[Thomas Pierret @ThomasPierret]

@BenjaminFeve @muftahmag Thanks Benjamin!

[Muftah Magazine @muftahmag]

Following our last discussion on Syria and the future of Islamism, @ThomasPierret joins us for another episode of @ProteanView––this time to discuss the Left's fractured response to the Syrian revolution.

https://t.co/ZMquV8MyfG

[Thomas Pierret @ThomasPierret]

Latest SiT Syria poll https://t.co/ecooM9lwiu

[Jihad Yazigi @jihadyazigi]

Syria has seen a growing number of protests across the country, mostly on socio-economic issues. Here our mapping of protests in the month of April alone. @TheSyriaReport

[Karam Shaar كرم شعّار @Karam__Shaar]

We've always known that refugees' intentions to return don't always translate to actual return over time.

But get this: A whopping two-thirds of refugees who returned to Syria had responded to recent surveys that they don't intend to return.

It makes me question the usefulness of the entire exercise of attitudinal surveys for policy design!

https://t.co/tIAfPryr8v

[Thomas Pierret @ThomasPierret]

@JihadGillon Ça dépend des époques...

[Aron Lund @aronlund]

Hassan Abdelazim passed away at 94. A Nasserite, he was a leading figure in Syria’s pre-war opposition and its internal feuds, from the Hafez-era Tajammou to the Damascus Spring and Damascus Declaration. Played a minor role after 2011 via the Hayat Tansiq internal opposition body

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

🇱🇧 🇦🇲 “As an Armenian, watching the systematic erasure of South Lebanon feels like a recurring nightmare that the world refuses to wake up from… It’s living again the hollow silence that met our own ancestors in 1915.”
https://t.co/JXtrolIXqB
by @Arazbedros
via @BeirutCalling

[Thomas Pierret @ThomasPierret]

@LizHurra @AhmadFPR I couldn't care less about what they actually say in the video. The context in which these people are having "fun" is what I find utterly shocking. Puzzling you don't get it.

[Thomas Pierret @ThomasPierret]

@LizHurra @AhmadFPR The children who used to play there were murdered, at worst, or won't ever see their homes again, at best. "Disobedient idiots" is a disturbingly mild way to call such people.

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@LizHurra @AhmadFPR And a colonial mindset

[Sylvain Mercadier @Sylv_Mercadier]

I can't believe my ears. My MFA @jnbarrot is using a racist quote from Golda Meir where she says that "Israelis forgive Arabs for killing their children but cannot forgive them for forcing them to kill their own children". Epitomy of orwellian rhetoric after 2.5 years of genocide

[Thomas Pierret @ThomasPierret]

@TheActualAmmar None (especially among HTS radicals) cares about Jibril's fanboys. They're very vulnerable to state repression. Difficult for me to imagine they acted without some form of green light.